Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky MountainsBrown, Stewardson
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Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Brown, Stewardson
Mountain plants -- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
White-woolly throughout, stem simple, 6—18 inches high. Leaves
spatulate to lanceolate or linear, 1—4 inches long, acute, nerved.
Heads numerous in a close capitate cluster, ½—1 inch high, outer
bracts of the involucre straw-colour or greenish, rounded and often
notched at the apex; inner ones nearly white.
In moist open ground in the Rockies at the lower elevations; flowering
in July.
[Sidenote: =Antennaria racemose= Hook. _White Everlasting._]
Lightly woolly, becoming smooth, stems 6—20 inches high, slender,
sparsely leafy. Leaves thin, the radicle broadly oval, an inch or two
long, obscurely 3-nerved at the base, rather veiny, the lower stem
leaves oblong, the upper smaller and lanceolate. Heads of flowers
about ¼ of an inch high, all on slender peduncles in a loose raceme,
involucral bracts, thin and translucent, greenish-yellow or brownish.
On shaded slopes throughout the Rockies, at the higher altitudes;
flowering in June.
[Sidenote: =Antennaria Howellii= Greene. _Howell’s Everlasting._]
More or less woolly; stem 6—10 inches high. Leaves rather thin, the
lower spatulate, acute, 1—2 inches long, green above, woolly beneath;
stem leaves lanceolate, clasping, 1 inch long, becoming smaller toward
the summit. Heads in a compact capitate cluster, ½ an inch or more in
diameter, woolly at the base; involucral bracts very narrow, acute,
thin, and translucent, straw-colour, the outer ones densely woolly and
occasionally rosy.
In dry ground and on slopes, frequent in the Rockies at the lower
altitudes.
[Sidenote: =Antennaria parvifolia= Nutt. _Mountain Everlasting._]
Plant silvery throughout, freely spreading; stems prostrate and leafy,
forming mats of considerable extent; flowering stems 2—8 inches high.
Leaves from obovate to spatulate, ½ an inch or less long, persistently
white-woolly. Heads in compact terminal clusters about ⅓ of an inch
broad; involucral bracts, lanceolate, obtuse, thin and translucent,
yellowish.
In dry sterile ground at the lower altitudes throughout the Rockies;
flowering in June, frequently growing with the next species which it
closely resembles in manner of growth.
[Sidenote: =Antennaria rosea= (D. C. Eaton) Greene. _Pink Everlasting._]
Silvery throughout, stems prostrate and leafy, forming broad mats;
flowering stems 6—15 inches high. Leaves very thin in texture, densely
hairy, lanceolate to linear, ½—1½ inches long, acute. Heads small,
closely compacted into a rounded terminal cluster, ½ an inch or more in
diameter; involucral bracts in 2 series, lanceolate, the outer greenish
and woolly, the inner from pink to bright rose-colour.
In dry sterile or moist open ground throughout the Rockies up to an
elevation of 6,000 feet; flowering in June and July.
[Sidenote: =Anaphalis subalpina= (A. Gray) Rydb. _Pearly Everlasting._]
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